But now I discovered the wonderful power of wine. I understood why men become drunkards. For the way it worked on me was not at all that it blotted out these sorrows, but that it made them seem glorious and noble, like sad music, and I somehow great and revered for feeling them.

I believe in Christianity as I believe the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

Those that hate goodness are sometimes nearer than those that know nothing at all about it and think they have it.

And this is the marvel of marvels; that he called me Beloved.

...the sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal, or two friends talking over a pint of beer, or a man alone reading a book that interests him..." - C.S. Lewis: Weight of Glory

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

You can give the Devil too much or too little attention.